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G. DEAL.

- Horse Rake.

3 Sheets-Sheet L Patented April 7, 1868.

3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

G. DEAL.

Horse Rake.

Patented April 7, 1868.

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Horse Rake.

Patented April 7, 1868.-

GEORGE DEAL, OF WI-LMOT, OHIO.

lletters Patent No. 76,307, dated April 7, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN .HORSE-RAKES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE DEAL, of Wilmot, in the county of Stark, and State of Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Horse-Rakes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this spec'ification- Figure 1 being a top .view of a-rahe provided with my improvement.

Figure 2, a side elevation thereof. I

Figure 3, a longitudinal vertical section of the same, close to one of the thills of the rake.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures. I

The rake is supported on two wheels, A A, and their axle, B, and is drawn by two thills or shafts, C C. A driver's seat, E, is mounted on the axle B. The rake-teeth I I are secured at the upper end to a roller, D, and are also attached further back to a transverse bar, S, by staples or loops, s s, or otherwise. Thus far the construction presents nothing peculiar.

My invention consists in an improved arrangement of the rake-teeth, and method of adjusting and operating them, by means ofthe bar S. This bar is located, when the rake-teeth are in working position, directly over the axle B, and is hinged by loops m m, or their equivalent to the rear ends of adjustable bearing-arms I I. The forwardends of the arms I I are hinged, respectively, to the shafts G O, or, by Idy improved construction of the rake, to flanges or angle-irons," Gr G, which also serve for securing the thills to the axle B. Theform and construction of these angle-irons are substantially as shown in the drawings, so as to fulfill the triple purpose of attaching the thills to the axle for mounting the bearing-arms upon, and for sustaining respectively two standards, H H, which are preferably pivoted thereto at p, and projecting upward through slots or apertures in the bearing-arms I L'are provided with sets of equidistant holes, as shown, into which adjusting-pins 72, h are inserted for raising or lowering the rake-teeth. The angle-irons extend beneath and embrace the rear ends of thethills, to which they are secured by belts or otherwise, and they are also bolted tothe lower side of the axle B. The adjusting-standards may be otherwise equivalently constructed and arranged. By this means of mounting and adjusting the bar S, the rake-teeth are adjusted directly up and down to vary the pressure on the ground, so that their points or extremities always remain vertically beneath the axle, whereby they adapt themselves to the surface of the'ground precisely as the wheels A A rise and descend over the surface. It also enables the roller D to be located forward of the axle sufiieicntly to balance the rake-teeth, and under the thills, so that it can descend under the axle in raising the teeth out of action from the ground, as indicated by red lines in figs. 2 and 3.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The angleirons G G and the standards II II and barring-arms I I, to which the bar S is hinged, mounted on said-angle-irons, constructed and arranged and applied 'to the rake substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

I also claim the combination and arrangement of the hinged bar S, rake-teeth L L, and roller D, so that the'said roller balances or nearly balances the rake-teeth, substantially as specified.

The above specification of my improvement in horse-ral es signed by me, this let-h clay of October, 1867.

' GEORGE DEAL. Witnesses:

JOSEPH GILMORE, J. A. Hamilton. 

